Profiles

Visual arts organisations and projects in the North West region.

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Fineonine Project Group

Description: A group of recent Fine Art graduates from the University of Central Lancashire who have the collective aim of staying in the North West, basing their art practice in Preston. The fineonine members work together on exhibitions and projects throughout the region and are currently using student and alumni facilities at UCLan, including ArtLab and Campus Galleries, to host exhibitions and produce their individual and group artwork.…

Fold

Description: Fold is an artist-led organisation which aims to provide and promote access to quality contemporary art in the rural environment. It does this through a programme of exhibitions in its space in Kirkby Stephen and commissioning temporary artworks in the rural landscape across Cumbria, Co. Durham and Northumberland. Fold also facilitates FRED: an art invasion across Cumbria which has become Europe's largest annual festival of site-specific work. Each year over 100 artists from across the UK a…

folly

Description: folly is a leading digital arts organisation working across England’s North West. folly presents an active artistic programme that provides creative interaction and collaboration between artists and the wider public using technology. folly commissions, exhibits, promotes and supports creative work and innovation with a strong emphasis on the use of online media, networked systems and integrated technologies. folly delivers a year round diverse and innovative programme of online proje…

Free For Arts Festival 2010

Description: Free For Arts Festival 2010 Friday 1st October – Friday 8th October __________ The Free For Arts Festival is a not-for-profit celebration of art and performance. Manchester will play host to a weeklong series of events fuelled by the varying ideas of local artists and performers united by their desire to provide inventive and unique experiences for the public “on the house”. The work will range from contemporary art exhibitions located in diverse city centre spaces to innovatively prese…